Chihayafuru

Oct 05, 2011 (ja) Animation, Drama [23] Min
  • First Air Date
    Oct 05, 2011
  • Production
    Madhouse, Nippon Television Network Corporation, VAP
  • Rotten tomato
    77%
  • Original title
    ちはやふる
  • Release
    Oct 05, 2011
  • ja
    -

Overview

Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Takuya Shiroshita, Kazunari Sengoku, Ayuri Taguchi, Hidetada Soga, Natsuko Tatsuzawa, Hiroyuki Inage

    Producer

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Casts

  1. Asami Seto

    Chihaya Ayase (voice)

  2. Mamoru Miyano

    Taichi Mashima (voice)

  3. Yoshimasa Hosoya

    Arata Wataya (voice)

Full Casts & Crew

Casts : 3 / Crews : 27

Specials ( 2013-09-13)

During My Forlorn Years in This World

Episode: 1

So I wish for a memory

Episode: 2

Chihayafuru ( 2011-10-05)

Now the Flower Blooms

Episode: 1

The Red That Is

Episode: 2

From the Crystal White Snow

Episode: 3

A Whirlwind of Flower Petals Descends

Episode: 4

The Sight of a Midnight Moon

Episode: 5

Now Bloom Inside the Nine-fold Palace

Episode: 6

But for Autumn's Coming

Episode: 7

The Sounds of the Waterfall

Episode: 8

But I Cannot Hide

Episode: 9

Exchange Hellos And Goodbyes

Episode: 10

The Sky is the Road Home

Episode: 11

Sets These Forbidden Fields Aglow

Episode: 12

For You, I Head Out

Episode: 13

For There Is No One Else Out Here

Episode: 14

As Though Pearls Have Been Strung Across the Autumn Plain

Episode: 15

The Autumn Leaves of Mount Ogura

Episode: 16

World Offers No Escape

Episode: 17

The Plum Blossoms Still Smell the Same

Episode: 18

As the Years Pass

Episode: 19

The Cresting Waves Almost Look Like Clouds in the Skies

Episode: 20

As My Sleeves Are Wet with Dew

Episode: 21

Just as My Beauty Has Faded

Episode: 22

The Night is Nearly Past

Episode: 23

Nobody Wishes to See the Beautiful Cherry Blossoms

Episode: 24

Moonlight, Clear and Bright

Episode: 25

Chihayafuru 2 ( 2013-01-12)

So The Flower Has Wilted

Episode: 1

As My First Love Came

Episode: 2

Feel Love Deepen

Episode: 3

To tell the people in the capital that I make for the islands

Episode: 4

Be as dear now, those were the good old days

Episode: 5

To set the Tatsuta River ablaze

Episode: 6

They all exchange hellos and goodbyes at the famous gates of Afusaka

Episode: 7

Which shines over Mount Mikasa

Episode: 8

My Only Thought

Episode: 9

Rain takes longer to dry

Episode: 10

I feel as though my body is on fire with Ibuki mugwort

Episode: 11

The only sign of summer

Episode: 12

In my dreams, I creep closer to you

Episode: 13

People would always ask if I was pining for someone

Episode: 14

No matter where I stand

Episode: 15

Wait for the Emperor's Return

Episode: 16

Gust of wind

Episode: 17

My fear is that you will forget

Episode: 18

I do not know where this love will take me

Episode: 19

The fall paddy shacks

Episode: 20

But its legacy continues to spread

Episode: 21

Long Last We Meet

Episode: 22

To see the beautiful cherry blossoms

Episode: 23

When I must hide...

Episode: 24

I can look up and see the snowy cap of Mt. Fuji

Episode: 25

Chihayafuru 3 ( 2019-10-22)

May it be that I find

Episode: 1

The hazed early dawn light comes not from the moon

Episode: 2

But from the crystal white snow of Yoshino

Episode: 3

Nobody wishes to see

Episode: 4

Mount Amanokagu

Episode: 5

Tatsuta River Ablaze

Episode: 6

The storm blasts

Episode: 7

As friends and strangers

Episode: 8

I recall how my own efforts were in vain

Episode: 9

Scarlet kadsuras

Episode: 10

Leaving a hovering mist above the trees and grass

Episode: 11

So the flower petals are scattered like the snow by the passing storm

Episode: 12

Yet it is I who withers and wilts

Episode: 13

The emotions experienced

Episode: 14

As helpless autumn leaves are caught against the flow

Episode: 15

Takes me away in haste

Episode: 16

As my sleeves are wet with dew

Episode: 17

The storm will soon carry me

Episode: 18

Bring a life of everlasting love

Episode: 19

May the scarlet kadsuras

Episode: 20

To restore my faith

Episode: 21

Just as my beauty has faded

Episode: 22

Like a boatsman adrift

Episode: 23

When winds send waves crashing

Episode: 24
Oct 05, 2011 (ja)
Animation, Drama
[23] Min
  • First Air Date Oct 05, 2011
  • Production
    Madhouse, Nippon Television Network Corporation, VAP
  • Rotten tomato 77%
Original Title ちはやふる
ja

Overview

Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Takuya Shiroshita, Kazunari Sengoku, Ayuri Taguchi, Hidetada Soga, Natsuko Tatsuzawa, Hiroyuki Inage

    Producer